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Microsoft Leveraging iPod Patent?
willie3204 was one of several readers who noticed this story about Microsoft cashing in on the iPod Patent that they apparently beat Apple to. Since this song looks to be played to the tune of $10/iPod, I imagine someone will be singing the appeal song.
Or as Steve Jobs once pointed out, "great artists steal." (Or did you think Apple invented their GUI?)
The irony here is rich. It's just too bad you can't patent the idea of putting all of your products in effete white plastic boxes.
What you mean steal and patent ? Are you suggesting, that Apple emplyees are dumb idiots that has no clue of the patent process and value to protect their invention ? JM
[0] I mean Coca-Cola, obviously.
Stop posting this crap to Slashdot.
What's easier to use? Apart from the obvious - such as the iAudio X5 and the like - there is the simple issue that 10 minutes of reading the instructions on players which are supposedly "harder to use" (the only iPod fanatics' remaining argument) enables the extremely efficient use of not only the player itself, but the extra features it possesses. Further, there are many people with entire music libraries encoded in .ogg (I believe the p2p stat is about 10% on bittorrent - FireFox has a similar usage rate, and look at the fuss being made about it.) As a final swift blow to your "rebuttal", EVEN IF you don't happen to like listening to the radio, _the feature is there for those who do_. Want to listen to the radio on the iPod? It's a $100AUD accessory. Virtually any other HDD-DAP? Comes with it. Gives a bit of perspective, hey?